The war in Afghanistan was not good intentions gone awry, but a failed intervention whose motivations and reasoning were lies perpetrated from the very start.
Twenty years of fighting has demonstrated that our wars in the Middle East increase violence, anti-Americanism, and destabalize the region. Only an intelligent, non-interventionist foreign policy will extinguish these political fires and decrease the threat of terrorism against the United States.
As the U.S. withdrawals from Afghanistan, Americans must ask what compelling reason they have to stay in Iraq, an ongoing war that doesn't make us safer.